On 5/30/05, Mark Keenan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi All, > > I recently did a much neede apt-get upgrade on my myth box. However, having > done this, mplayer simply refuses to work. If I try to watch a movie through > myth, the movie starts to play (I know because I hear the sound), but I > never see anything other than the myth movie description on the screen. > > Originally, I thought it was a focus/z-order problem and that I could simply > alt-tab to the playing movie, but I couldnt!.... > So then I tried playing a movie from the command line using mplayer and > doing this causes the entire X session to freeze up. I have to kill X to > recover the box?!?!?!?!....
Are you able to log the mplayer output up to the point of the freeze? It could be accelerated video driver problems if they were updated also - try using the X11 driver in mplayer to see if you can get unaccelerated playback working. When installing xine - I think you need to install xine and xine-lib if using apt-get or yum. Maybe try compiling it manually - it's very straightforward and see if you can get video working again. Nick _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
